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Meet Rebecca. She was diagnosed with grade 4 brain cancer, glioblastoma. The only chemo treatment approved for this cancer and prescribed to Rebecca by her doctor comes in a pill-form as a take-home cancer treatment. While she was recovering from brain surgery, she had to jump through hoops to get this medication paid for, as someone in Ontario under the age of 65. Rebecca says this process was more stressful for her than recovering from brain surgery itself. This is the reality for Rebecca and others who are navigating a cancer diagnosis and need a take-home cancer treatment: ⁠⁠ STEP 1: Exhaust all private pay options — including maxing out your private drug insurance if you have it.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ STEP 2: Apply to the Ontario Trillium Drug Program — encountering risky delays that take an average of one month for approval.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ STEP 3: Pay the government an average $4,000/year deductible most likely while working on a reduced income during cancer treatment.⁠⁠ To put it simply: Canadians living in the Western Provinces, Northern Territories and Quebec have better, faster and more affordable access to advances in cancer treatments than patients in Ontario. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Regardless of age, socioeconomic status, or cancer type — when patients in these regions receive their diagnosis, they will be prescribed the approved treatment they need and get it when they need it. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Ontario's cancer funding is a decade behind the majority of Canada. This is unacceptable. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ For approx. $50 million/year, Ontario can close the gap and provide significant financial and emotional relief to patients and their families. That‘s just 1/10th of 1% of the estimated $63 BILLION that Ontario spent on healthcare in 2020.⁠⁠ Ontario's General Election is on June 2, 2022. ⁠⁠It's time for all political parties to commit to equal access to take-home cancer drugs in their platforms.⁠⁠ We need you to be an ally and demand equal access to take-home cancer drugs in Ontario. ⁠⁠Visit our petition at change.org/bitterest_pill and sign your name. Thank you! Thank you to Alibi Entertainment Inc. for making these videos possible. Sign up to the newsletter! http://bit.ly/joinrethink Visit Rethink Breast Cancer! http://rethinkbreastcancer.com Follow Rethink! Facebook:   / rethinkbreastcancer   Twitter:   / rethinktweet   Instagram:   / rethinkbreastcancer   Questions, concerns or comments, email us at [email protected]